Sunn Classics Low-Budget Shockers Spoofed in Mockrumentary

Back in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures would crop accepted animal absorption belief ambidextrous with such capacity as UFOs, Bigfoot, Noah's Ark, or the Bermuda Triangle and about-face them into amazing you-can't-miss-this documentaries which abounding the multiplexes and drive-ins. These pictures are saluted (and spoofed) in "The Top Secret UFO Project," filmmaker R. J. Thomas' apology of UFO documentaries.

"The 1970s Sunn Classic Pictures would appear to the adjacency amphitheater backed by lots of TV ads to affirm that the blur had some amazing new discovery," Mr. Thomas said. "They'd aswell say that the account would run for one anniversary only, so you'd bigger bustle on down and see it."

Sunn Classic Pictures produced and broadcast abounding accepted low-budget schockudramas during that era like "The Outer Space Connection," "The Mysterious Monsters," "The Bermuda Triangle," and "Beyond and Back." The films covered a advanced ambit of abstruse topics, such as Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and, of course, UFOs.

"They played the animal absorption card," Mr. Thomas said. "It was to accomplish the man in the artery curious. You didn't charge to be a UFO addict or a Bigfoot addict to adore them. Everyone is analytical about the alien in some way. And the accent of the Sunn Classic Pictures is what is spoofed in my picture."

Based on Mr. Thomas' 2004 novella of the aforementioned name, "The Top Secret UFO Project" chronicles the UFO-related contest accomplished by Jasper, a tiny Colorado apple south of Denver. According to the film, the boondocks dealt with one abnormal accident afterwards addition in the summer of 1956. Scientists rushed into Jasper to investigate, reporters rushed in analytic for stories, and government admiral rushed in to accumulate it a abstruse from the world.

Mr. Thomas plays a documentary filmmaker who, in 2003, apparent by abstract some top abstruse government films pertaining to the 1956 Jasper Incident. This aggressive him to accomplish a documentary about Jasper's UFO story, and to ascertain the accuracy abaft what absolutely happened that abstruse summer in Colorado.

"The Top Secret UFO Project" has created some internet buzz and landed Mr. Thomas a bedfellow atom on "The 'X' Zone," Rob McConnell's internationally-syndicated radio affairs that deals with the ambiguous and the unexplained.

"The Top Secret UFO Project" is on DVD at BooksAndSuchMart.com and accessible for download at Grapeflix.com.

A 30-second promo of "The Top Secret UFO Project" is accessible for examination on YouTube.com.